Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.

Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

Everybody works but the vacant lot

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

God showers upon us his gifts-more than enough for all; But like swine scrambling for food, we tread them in the mire, and rend each other.

If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.